Huajia ceremony of Korean nationality

Name of Chinese national intangible cultural heritage: huajiali of Korean nationality

Applicant: Dandong City, Liaoning Province

Item No.: 996

Project No.: Ⅹ - 89

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Liaoning Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Dandong City, Liaoning Province

Protection unit: Dandong intangible cultural heritage protection and Research Center

Brief introduction of Huajia ceremony of Korean Nationality:

Applicant: Dandong City, Liaoning Province

Since ancient times, the Korean people have regarded respecting the elderly as an important criterion in their family and even social life. Huajia ceremony is an important life ritual held by the Korean people for the 60 year old. It evolved from the custom of birthday and respect for the elderly, formed between the middle of the 17th century and the middle of the 18th century, and mainly spread in Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and the Korean inhabited areas in Northeast China.

On the birthday of the elderly of Korean nationality, their children will hold a banquet for them, invite their relatives and neighbors to gather together to express their gratitude for their parents' kindness. Birthday is the basic ceremony of Huajia ceremony. The banquet is full of candy, fish, cakes and wine. Huajia old man sits in the center of the banquet, male left and female right, and receives people's birthday together with his relatives and neighbors. At the beginning of the ceremony, the people who wish the birthday in the order of their children's age and the distance of their relatives and friends, or toast and kowtow, or offer poems and prayers, or sing and dance to wish the elderly a long and healthy life. The whole ceremony is full of humanistic care, harmony and warm atmosphere.

Huajiali of Korean nationality inherits the national virtue of respecting and respecting the elderly, which further deepens the intimate relationship between father and son, grandparents, daughter-in-law and in-law in the family, and helps to promote the sound development of social atmosphere and accelerate the construction of harmonious society.